Improvement in workmen s time-registers



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Improvement in Warkmens Time-Register.

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improvement in Workmens Time-Register, N0. 128,225. 7 PatentediuneQEi, 1872.

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BENJAMIN T. HARRIS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WORKMENS TIME-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,225, dated June 25, 1872; antedated June 5, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN T. HARRIS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented and made a Time- Keeper for Employs, and the following is declared to be a correct description of the same.

The object of this invention is to keep a correct record of the time of employes, by means of clock-work. Each employ on entering throws the train of gearing allotted to himself into connection with a clock, so that his time is computed and added to his previous time by a horograph somewhat similar to the index of a gasmeter. When the same workman leaves, he disconnects his time-register, and in this manner the sum of his time is automatically kept. I also arrange these time-registers so that any desired number may receive motion from a clock, and hence the apparatus may be adapted to any desired number of workmen. Further, I apply to the clock-movement a disconnecting apparatus, that at given intervals throws out all the horographs and disconnects them from the clock-movement, so that employs all leaving at a given time, such as at noon and at six oclock, do not have to visit the said clock, the device being automatic at the times at which it may be set to operate.

In the drawing, Figurel is an elevation of the time-keeper complete. Fig.2 is a partial front view in nearly full size. Fig. 3 shows the chaineonnections from the clock to the wheels of the respective time-registers. Fig. 4 is a plan of two of the horographs. Fig. 5 is a plan of the auxiliary motor and the disconnecting apparatus; and Fig. 6 is a plan of the adjustable tappets on the hand-arbor of the clock.

The clock movement and face a are to be of any desired character, and do not require to be described; and a suitable-case, 1), contains the parts of the time-keeper. The proper openings are provided for inspecting the timeregisters, and a glass, 1/, should be introduced in front of the same. The wheel 0, Fig. 3, is

revolved a definite number of times per day, preferably once in each hour, and this wheel is notched to receive the joint-pins of a doublelinked endless chain, (1, that is of the required length according to the number of time-registers employed, and said chain passes around a wheel, 0, that receives motion from the auxiliary motor composed of a spring, 0, and train of gearing f, or other device that acts in aid of the spring or weight of the clock, so that the running of the clock is not interfered with by the addition of this time-keeper. The wheels g g are similar to the wheels 0 0, but they they only require to be thin disks, and they are to be arranged in the manner shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and one part of the endless chain passes down between the wheels gas they are set in pairs, and the pins of the chain passing into the notches, communicate to the wheels a continuous movement, and there is no possibility of the chain becoming out of contact with the wheels. The portion of the chain at that is not between the wheels 9 g, may be kept from contact with the opposite sides of one range of such wheels 9 or not. Each of the time-registers is made in a manner to properly denote minutes, hours, or days, or other divisions of time. I prefer the form shown, in which the dial lindicates hours-say from one to tenby one hand, and by the oth er hand, minutes; and by the dial it the days are denoted, so that minutes and hours up to ten days are indicated. Thus each time-register will add time to time of an employ, and indicate the time worked in minutes up to ten days of ten hours each, and the time of the employ between one settlement and the next is indicated by the deduction of the time denoted at the previous settlement from that shown by the index at the time. The proportion of gearing in each time-register may be varied from that shown to suit the motor and the divisions of the dial. The lever n on the fulcrum 3 is employed to shift the coupling 4 into connection with the sleeve 5 and its pinion 6, upon the sleeve of which is the minutehand of the dial 1, and from 6 the motion is taken by the wheel 7, pinion 8, and wheel 9, to the sleeve of the hour-hand of said dial 1. The pinion 10, wheel 11, pinion 12, and wheel 13 lessen the motion, so that the hand of the dial it denotes the number of days of ten hours each shown by one rotation of the hour-hand on the dial 1. A second hand may be added to the dial k, to compute the days worked up to one hundred. The spring 14 tends to throw the clutch 4 out of connection, and stop the computation of the workmans time; and the arm 15, on the lever n, stops the train of wheels from moving by any jar or concussion. In order to hold the lever it against the action of the spring 14, the said lever is caught in a notch in the slot 0,- see Fig. 2; hence, when the lever n is pressed up out of that notch, the spring 14 is self-acting to disconnect the train. Each lever n has a projecting knob, and these should be numbered, and the respective workmen given corresponding numbers; and slips for cards with the respective names are also provided at p 1).

It will now be understood that if each workman connects his time-register upon entering, and disconnects the same upon leaving, a proper record of time will be made. It is therefore now only necessary to describe how the time-keeper is made automatic at the hour for discharging the employs. The tappets q upon the arbor of the hour-hand can be moved around to any desired point, and held by friction from a spring, 20. (See Fig. 6.) WVhen the tappet comes in contact with the lever 1", see Fig. 2, it depresses the same, and the rod u unlatching the lever o from the su ailcam 21, that is rotated by the springbarrel w and a train of gearing, so that the wheel as of that train makes a half revolution, presses down by the lugs 22 the lever 50, and by the links r throws up the notched slides 11, and liberates the spring-levers n from their respective notches, so as to allow their springs to throw out of gear all the time-registers. The hook 23 on the lever c catches the-lug 22 as it comes around and stops the movement, and after the tappet 9 has passed clear of the lever r, the spring 24 lifts the hook 23, rod 11, lever r, and brings the end of the lever '11 into position to stop the cam 21; at the same time the weight of the notched slides 22, or these and a spring, cause the parts to resume their normal position, ready to be acted upon as before.

I remark that the parts are to be balanced and adjusted so that the movements will be effected with the expenditure of but little power, and that a screw might take the place of the chain d,- but I prefer the latter.

I claim as my invention- 7 1. A series of time-registers actuated by a clock-movement, and each provided with a connecting and disconnecting apparatus to be operated by the employ, or in his behalf, for

registering the time of such employ, substantially as set forth.

2. A series of time-registers actuated by a clock-movement, in combination with disconneoting mechanism operated automatically by the clock-movement at definite times, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The notched slides c, actuated by the lever 00, links 4, wheel 00, and lug 22, in combination with the levers n, spring 14, clutch 4, tappet q, and lever r, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this 8th day of August, A. D.

BENJ. T. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. SMITH, GEO. 'l. PINOKNEY. 

